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<\/p>\nYesterday, reading Heather Cox Richardson’s Letter from an American for Thursday, I stumbled on a piece of information which I suspect has mostly gotten lost in the brou-ha-ha over The Indictment. And that is that Turkey has dropped it’s objections to Finland joining NATO – and that this was all that was needed for Finland to become a NATO member. That is great news for Finland, but also for all democracies, since it also strengthens NATO, both in reality and symbolically.<\/p>\n
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Daily Kos (Dartagnan) – Oh no! CNN says we’re in ‘uncharted waters!’<\/a> Civil Discourse – Indicted<\/a> Food For Thought Yesterday, reading Heather Cox Richardson’s Letter from an American for Thursday, I stumbled on a piece of information which I suspect has mostly gotten lost in the brou-ha-ha over The Indictment. And that is that Turkey has dropped it’s objections to Finland joining NATO – and that this was all that was needed for Finland […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":50381,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[3704,4115],"class_list":["post-51342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-cartoon","tag-justice","category-35-id","category-3-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nQuote – We had a president who embraced white supremacy and intentionally inspired terrorist attacks against Americans. Those are \u201cuncharted waters.\u201d We had a president who was defeated soundly in 2020, then proceeded to lie about the results, corroding our democracy, probably irreparably. Those are \u201cuncharted waters.\u201d… So please, don\u2019t even talk to me about \u201cuncharted waters.\u201d That ship sailed a long, long time ago.
\nClick through for aall the points<\/a>. This should go viral.<\/p>\n
\nQuote – Expect a circus in the courthouse on Tuesday when Trump arrives for arraignment. He is a different kind of defendant, so there will be some differences in how he\u2019s treated\u2014for one thing, he\u2019ll be accompanied by at least one Secret Service agent as he goes through the booking process and there will be a focus on safety so don\u2019t expect a traditional \u201cperp walk\u201d. But essentially, Trump will find himself in the same position as any other defendant, submitting to the booking process, being fingerprinted, photographed and arraigned in open court. He will also face a judge. There has been some suggestion it will be Judge Juan Manuel Merchan, who was in charge of the Manhattan DA\u2019s prosecution of the Trump Organization, and who ran a tight ship.
\nClick through for details<\/a>. There is a lot of speculation on what the arraignment will look like, and I wanted to capture the speculation of a former federal prosecutor in her own words. It’s still speculation, but it experience-based.<\/p>\n
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